decastichn.
/ˈdɛkəstɪk/ rare.
A poem of ten lines.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 402 This Decasticon.]
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxvii. 41 According to your frendly request I have sent you this Decastic.
1891 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. viii. 376 A short poem (on the value of industry to the farmer), consisting of a decastich.
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